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** – Death of [[Sir Isaac Newton]], Britain's greatest scientist, sometimes considered to have been gay.
** – Death of [[Sir Isaac Newton]], Britain's greatest scientist, sometimes considered to have been gay.
* '''1732''' – [[Beggar's Benison Club]] founded in Anstruther, Scotland.
* '''1732''' – [[Beggar's Benison Club]] founded in Anstruther, Scotland.
* '''1748''' – Publication of ''Roderick Random'' by [[Tobias Smollett]], including an explicity gay character.
* '''1748''' – Publication of ''Roderick Random'' by [[Tobias Smollett]], including an explicitly gay character.
* '''1749''' – Publication of ''Fanny Hill'' by [[John Cleland]], sometimes thought to have been a homoerotic work in disguise.
* '''1749''' – Publication of ''Fanny Hill'' by [[John Cleland]], sometimes thought to have been a homoerotic work in disguise.
** – Publication of a defence of homosexuality, ''Ancient & Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd'' by [[Thomas Cannon]].
** – Publication of a defence of homosexuality, ''Ancient & Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd'' by [[Thomas Cannon]].

Revision as of 19:07, 21 July 2012

Note: strictly speaking the year 2000 belongs to the 20th century, but for convenience it is treated here as belonging to the 21st (and similarly with other centuries).

2nd century

  • 122 – Emperor Hadrian visits Britain.

6th century

  • c547 – Death of King Maelgwn of Gwynedd.
  • late 6th century – Findchán and Áid the Black cursed by St Columba.

7th century

  • 670 – St Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, prescribes fasts and penances for various homosexual acts.

9th century

12th century

13th century

  • c.1290 – Publication of Fleta, first book to suggest a punishment (which was not enforced) for homosexuality in English law.

14th century

  • 1327 – Murder of King Edward II.
  • 1376 – The Good Parliament petitions King Edward III to banish foreign traders for having introduced "the too horrible vice which is not to be named".
  • 1391 – Death of Sir John Clanvowe and Richard Neville.
  • 1395 – John Rykener arrested for cross-dressing.

15th century

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

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